Every year Staff Selection Commission make some changes in their exam pattern and syllabus. Similarly this year also following changes are made.Knowing latest SSC CGL exam pattern and syllabus help you to prepare for your exam in right direct and ultimately this would help you to crack CGL exam with good marks.

SSC cgl 2017 Exam Pattern and Syllabus- Notification update

here is an important Combined Graduate Level Examination syllabus notification. The notification is about slightly changed in the old exam pattern to new one. It help you to do your preparation more delightfully. You can’t crack and exam if you don’t follow the right way for that particular studies. So here is some useful information for SSC CGL candidates. All candidates are requested to read once changed exam pattern and syllabus for all the Tier-1, Tier-2 and Tier-3 which is given below.

Marking Scheme:
For each correct answer candidates get 1 marks and at the same time for each wrong answer, 0.5 mark would deducted.

Exam sections

Questions

Marks

General Intelligence and Reasoning

25

50

General Awareness

25

50

Quantitative Aptitude

25

50

English

25

50

Total

100

200

Total Time

75 minutes

cerebral Palsy- 100 minutes

Exmination mode

online

SSC CGL Tier 2 Exam Pattern/ Syllabus

Candidates who qualify tier 1 would able to appear in this phase. Tier II is also an online mode exam in which tier 1 qualifiers have to answer 3 paper where 3rd one is option for everyone except the candidates who are applying for Statistical Investigator/Junior Statistical Officer posts. In paper 1 consists of English questions, Paper 2 consists of Quantitative Abilities type questions and in paper 3 consists of Statistical Methods type questions.

SSC CGL Tier 3 Exam Pattern/ Syllabus

All the candidates who have been successfully qualified above two tiers would able to appear in this tier. SSC had introduced same tier in last year (2016). SSC introduce Tier III to check candidates writing skills. In this phase candidates have to answer Descriptive Paper either English or Hindi. This paper consist of 100 marks question in which applicants have to score minimum 33 percentage to qualify Tier III. Descriptive paper consist of 10+2 stranded question. This paper might be consist of essay/ Passage 250 words and letter/ Application writing of Approx 150 words. Anyhow you can check out previous year question paper for more details.

Exam type

Descriptive Paper

Language

English or Hindi

Total Marks

100

Passing marks

33%

Syllabus

10+2 level

Duration

1 hour

SSC CGL Tier 4 Exam Pattern/ Syllabus

Candidates who have been successfully qualified tier I, II & III would be eligible for Tier IV. This Tier is simple as compare to other three Tiers. In this phase candidates have to clear data entry skill test and then finally he/ she successfully pass SSC CGL exam. Data Entry Skill also known as Computer Proficiency Test (CPT). Here candidates have to type 8,000 words in one hour or 2000 words in 15 minutes. Basically this test is introduced to check candidates Data entry speed in computer.

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